Acts and Regulations

P-22.1 - Provincial Offences Procedure Act

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Duplicitous count
107For the purposes of section 106,
(a) a count that is duplicitous contains a defect, and the question of whether or not the defect can be cured shall be determined in accordance with section 106,
(b) a count that, using the words of an Act to describe the offence with which the defendant is charged, states in disjunctive form things which appear in disjunctive form in the Act and that are ejusdem generis is not duplicitous and does not contain a defect, and for the purposes of a prosecution it is sufficient to establish that the defendant did any of the things so stated.
1990, c.18, s.57